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My rose bushes are blooming so beautifully. They have almost doubled in size since we planted them. I am now looking around for other places to put them.

I am running on very little sleep today. It's all "woman getting older hormonal issues" and there's nothing I can do but cope with it as best as I can. I know I will eventually get back to a more normal sleep schedule but for now 2 or 3 hrs a night seem to be all I get. It goes nicely with the sudden power surges. My whole body just feels off. I have warned the people around me that today is not a good day to push my buttons.

There is a bit of positive news. Peter Kevin had what sounded like a good phone interview yesterday. The interviewer said she was suggesting he be called for a face to face so we're crossing our fingers and trying not to get too excited.

Memorial Day was such a nice day. Valley Forge is such a beautiful park. We sat in the shade and talked and ate and generally had a nice low ke…

May. I haven't gotten used to writing the date with a 5 in front of it and May is almost gone already.

I wish I could make a list of many exciting things we have done in May but in all reality, we have done nothing out of the ordinary.

I did get to experience my first rose. Isn't it pretty? All three bushes are now almost covered with blossoms (and if I weren't running late this morning, I would have taken a photo of them on my way out the door to work). They are so pretty. I love the way the little bushes are sprouting out all over the place willy-nilly. They will look all wild and natural and not manicured.

And now that I've seen how easy they were to obtain and to take care of, I may want to go and get some more.

Our weather has been typically springlike and odd. One day will be 86 F and sunny and the next will be in the low 50's and windy and cold. At one point, we had both the space heater and the window fan in the bedroom. Usually when one comes…

﻿Saturday I wore this shirt. Kate gave it to me last year for Mother's Day (I think). It's one of my favorite Dr Who episodes (the one with Vincent Van Goh).
I got so many reactions to it! It was amazing. I used to have a sweatshirt that said "All this and Brains, too" which got a lot of responses but this one beat that.
One young man yelled "Allons-y" at me. It sure was a conversation starter.
But, once again, it was all about the sheep (and their by products). Kate and I went with the idea that we wanted to find 2200 yards of sport weight yarn to make shawls out of the Folk Shawls book (Cheryl Eberle). She's making the Irish Shawl and I am making the Fir Cone Shawl. They are large squares. She bought the first two skeins of a lovely light grey color and I bought 2400 yards of a merino/silk single that is softly spun and has a lovelylovely halo. You can almost see the softness. I rolled one skein into a ball (it's way too big for the bal…

﻿So, we've had a bit of rain this past week. My office mate (who is inclined toward exaggeration and extreme curmudgeonliness) said he heard that we got the equivalent of 7"/hour of rain. I have a feeling that while it did rain long and hard (enough to cause a 4' wide river to run down the sides of the street), it wasn't truly that bad.
Of course, since our house sits at the bottom of a hill, all the water runs down toward us and through our crawlspace to get to the storm drains in the street. We learned a long time ago not to leave things on the floor in our rec room.
The sun came out briefly, just enough to send the humidity through the roof (and you can imagine how lovely it made my hair. I get lovelier and lovelier as the humidity rises) and then it rained some more last night. Pk dropped me off at the train this morning and then started running the pump. All this moisture has rusted some of his tools even though they are not in the water. Just the added…